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Book Synopsis More Adventures with Britannia by : William Roger Louis
Download or read book More Adventures with Britannia written by William Roger Louis and published by I.B.Tauris. This book was released on 1998 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes essays on Henry James, Rudyard Kipling, Leonard and Virginia Woolf, D. H. Lawrence, George Orwell, 1984, Mountbatten, Winston Churchill, among others.
Book Synopsis More Adventures with Britannia by : Wm. Roger Louis
Download or read book More Adventures with Britannia written by Wm. Roger Louis and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-07-05 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collecting the interpretations of outstanding writers on the literature and history of modern Britain, this book deals with a rich variety of themes, some familiar, many unexpected, taking the reader on a highly engaging excursion through British life and intellectual biography. The scope includes not only the personalities, politics, and culture of England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland, but also the interaction of British and other societies throughout the world.
Book Synopsis Yet More Adventures with Britannia by : William Roger Louis
Download or read book Yet More Adventures with Britannia written by William Roger Louis and published by I.B. Tauris. This book was released on 2005-07-22 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is a colorful collection of writings by well known scholars and critics on modern Britain's literature and history. From British personalities, politics, and culture, to Britain's interaction with other societies, the subjects are wide-ranging and sometimes surprising. Niall Ferguson examines the origins of the first World War; Avi Shlaim reasseses the Balfour Declaration; Geoffrey Wheatcroft writes about Evelyn Waugh; David Cannadine revisits C.P. Snow's Two Cultures; and much more.
Book Synopsis Still More Adventures with Britannia by : Roger Louis
Download or read book Still More Adventures with Britannia written by Roger Louis and published by I.B. Tauris. This book was released on 2002-12-19 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together the interpretations of outstanding writers on the literature, politics, and history of modern Britain. It deals with a rich variety of themes, some familiar, many unexpected, taking the reader on a highly engaging excursion through British life and intellectual biography. Its scope covers not only the personalities, politics, and culture of England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland, but also the interaction of British society with other societies throughout the world.
Book Synopsis More Adventures with Britannia by : William Roger Louis
Download or read book More Adventures with Britannia written by William Roger Louis and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes essays on Henry James, Rudyard Kipling, Leonard and Virginia Woolf, D. H. Lawrence, George Orwell, 1984, Mountbatten, Winston Churchill, among others.
Book Synopsis Adventures with Britannia by : William Roger Louis
Download or read book Adventures with Britannia written by William Roger Louis and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For twenty years, the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin has sponsored a British Studies seminar. The scope includes not only the personalities, politics, and culture of England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland but also the interaction of British and other societies throughout the world. This book consists of a representative selection of lectures given to the seminar. Contents Albert Hourani (Oxford University), The Myth of T. E. Lawrence Hilary Spurling (Critic and Biographer), Paul Scott: Novelist and Historian Robert Blake (Oxford University), Winston Churchill as Historian Oliver Franks (Oxford University), The "Special Relationship," 1948-1952 M. R. D. Foot, Open and Secret War, 1938-1945 Donald Cameron Watt (London School of Economics), Personalities and Appeasement Alan Ryan (Princeton University), Bertrand Russell's Politics: 1688 or 1968? Joseph Hamburger (Yale University), How Liberal Was John Stuart Mill? Diane Kunz (Yale University), Post-War British Sterling Crises Adolf Wood, The Lure of the TLS Sarvepalli Gopal (Jawaharlal Nehru University), "Drinking Tea with Treason": Halifax in India Derek Brewer (Cambridge University), The Interpretation of Fairy Tales: Implications for Literature, History, and Anthropology William H. McNeill (University of Chicago), Toynbee Revisited Robert Skidelsky (University of Warwick), Keynes and the United States Ian MacKillop (Sheffield University), F. R. Leavis and the "Anthropologico-Literary" Group: We Were That Cambridge Field Marshall Michael Carver, Wavell and the War in the Middle East, 1940-1941 Michael Howard (Yale University), Reflections on Strategic Deception Jeremy Lewis (Critic andNovelist), Who Cares about Cyril Connolly? R. A. C. Parker (Oxford University), Chamberlain and Appeasement Alan Knight (Oxford University), British Attitudes towards the Mexican Revolution, 1910-1940 Kenneth O. Morgan (University of Wales), Welsh Nationalism
Book Synopsis More Adventures with Britannia by : Wm. Roger Louis
Download or read book More Adventures with Britannia written by Wm. Roger Louis and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays on British life and culture.
Book Synopsis Adventures with Britannia by : William Roger Louis
Download or read book Adventures with Britannia written by William Roger Louis and published by I.B.Tauris. This book was released on 1996 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Assembling the reflections of prominent writers on the political and intellectual history of modern Britain, this book deals with a rich variety of themes, taking the reader on an excursion through British life and manners. The scope includes the personalities, politics and culture of England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland.
Book Synopsis Effervescent Adventures with Britannia by : Roger Louis
Download or read book Effervescent Adventures with Britannia written by Roger Louis and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-12-05 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Effervescent Adventures with Britannia is the latest addition to Wm Roger Louis's stimulating and acclaimed series, Adventures with Britannia. It draws upon a distinguished array of writers and scholars - historians, political scientists, journalists, novelists, biographers and English literature specialists - to guide the reader through a fascinating labyrinth of British culture, history and politics. Together, they provide a unique insight into the pivotal themes - political, literary and cultural - which have shaped British state and society. The subjects covered include a new analysis of Jack the Ripper by Richard Davenport-Hines, a new appraisal of Harold Nicholson and Royal Biography by Jane Ridley and a new account of Evelyn Waugh in North America by Martin Stannard. In literature, Patrick French writes on V.S. Naipul; in history Andrew Lownie offers new perspectives on Guy Burgess and in politics Kenneth O. Morgan considers what will become of Britain after Brexit. Collectively, the chapters combine a rich mix of original ideas, historical and literary allusion, personality and anecdote, to provide an intellectual adventure into the mainsprings of modern British and international society.
Book Synopsis A Very British Experience by : Andrew Stewart
Download or read book A Very British Experience written by Andrew Stewart and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-29 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In terms of the Second World War and Britain's wartime strategy three elements deserve close scrutiny: the paramount importance of defending the British mainland and its population; the challenges of building and maintaining coalitions and alliances; and the central role the African continent assumed in all British strategic planning. A concluding essay reflects upon the degree to which in the face of an often uncertain and unconvincing approach these critical themes underpinned the British experience of the conflict. Topics addressed include 1940 and the Defence of Britain; relations with the United States; the British Empire Air Training Plan; General (Boy) Browning and Operation Market Garden; the recall of General Alan Cunningham from Libya in 1941; plans for defending the Royal Family; Exercise Genesis, which turned west London into a battleground for a day in May 1942; and the role of the Eastern Fleet off Africa. Andrew Stewart provides a compelling chapter on the loss of the Tobruk garrison in June 1942 -- one of the worst military disasters suffered by the British Empire during the Second World War. The essay on Tobruk demonstrates how all three defining elements of wartime experience converged: the loss of public confidence about how the war was being conducted; its impact on the relationship with the Union of South Africa, a key partner in the Dominion wartime coalition; and the absolute necessity that existed for deep strategic planning on the African continent -- subsequently to be realised at the final battle at El Alamein.
Book Synopsis Understanding the British Empire by : Ronald Hyam
Download or read book Understanding the British Empire written by Ronald Hyam and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-05-20 with total page 575 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding the British Empire draws on a lifetime's research and reflection on the history of the British Empire by one of the senior figures in the field. Essays cover six key themes: the geopolitical and economic dynamics of empire, religion and ethics, imperial bureaucracy, the contribution of political leaders, the significance of sexuality, and the shaping of imperial historiography. A major new introductory chapter draws together the wider framework of Dr Hyam's studies and several new chapters focus on lesser known figures. Other chapters are revised versions of earlier papers, reflecting some of the debates and controversies raised by the author's work, including the issue of sexual exploitation, the European intrusion into Africa, including the African response to missionaries, trusteeship, and Winston Churchill's imperial attitudes. Combining traditional archival research with newer forms of cultural exploration, this is an unusually wide-ranging approach to key aspects of empire.
Download or read book Elgar written by and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2008-11-04 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Music.
Book Synopsis The Philosophy of Isaiah Berlin by : Johnny Lyons
Download or read book The Philosophy of Isaiah Berlin written by Johnny Lyons and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-01-23 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'I gradually came to the conclusion that I should prefer a field in which one could hope to know more at the end of one's life than when one had begun.' So thought Isaiah Berlin toward the end of the Second World War, when he decided to bid farewell to philosophy in favour of the history of ideas. In The Philosophy of Isaiah Berlin Johnny Lyons shows that Berlin's approach to intellectual history amounted to the pursuit of philosophy by other means, creating a more original and fruitful engagement with his lifelong subject. By recasting Berlin as a philosopher who took humanity and history seriously, Lyons reveals the underlying unity of his wide-ranging and disparate ideas and throws into sharp relief the enduring moral charm of his outlook. Lyons emphasises aspects of Berlin's thinking that have largely been neglected. These include his recognition of historical contingency and of the importance of truth in human affairs, his scepticism about the so-called implications of determinism for our everyday understanding of freedom, and his deeper reasons for thinking that negative liberty should be valued. This introduction to Berlin's thought, and particularly its examination of these mainly overlooked elements of his outlook, reveals a new Berlin, one with surprising and urgent contemporary relevance to the debates that continue to dominate philosophy, politics and intellectual history today.
Book Synopsis Shaping British Foreign and Defence Policy in the Twentieth Century by : M. Murfett
Download or read book Shaping British Foreign and Defence Policy in the Twentieth Century written by M. Murfett and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-07-31 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is devoted to the shaping of British foreign and defence policymaking in the twentieth century and illustrates why it's relatively easy for states to lose their way as they grope for a safe passage forward when confronted by mounting international crises and the antics of a few desperate men.
Download or read book The Age of Asa written by M. Taylor and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-11-25 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Asa Briggs has been a prominent figure in post-war cultural life - as a pioneering historian, a far-sighted educational reformer, and a sensitive chronicler of the way in which broadcasting and communication more generally have shaped modern society. He has also been a devoted servant of the public good, involved in many inquiries, boards and trusts. Yet few accounts of public life in Britain since the Second World War include a discussion or appreciation of his influential role. This collection of essays provides the first critical assessment of Asa Briggs' career, using fresh research and new perspectives to analyse his contribution and impact on scholarship, the expansion of higher education at home and overseas, and his support and leadership for the arts and media more generally. The online bibliography of Asa Briggs' publications which accompanies the book is available on the The Institute of Historical Research website here.
Book Synopsis Origins of Pan-Africanism by : Marika Sherwood
Download or read book Origins of Pan-Africanism written by Marika Sherwood and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-04-20 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book recounts the life story of the pioneering Henry Sylvester Williams through original research, each chapter set in the social context of the times, providing insight not only into a remarkable man who has been heretofore virtually written out of history, but also into the African Diaspora in the UK a century ago.
Book Synopsis The Official History of the British Civil Service by : Rodney Lowe
Download or read book The Official History of the British Civil Service written by Rodney Lowe and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011-01-25 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first volume of the Official History of the UK Civil Service covers its evolution from the Northcote-Trevelyan Report of 1854 to the first years of Mrs Thatcher’s government in 1981. Despite current concerns with good governance and policy delivery, little serious attention has been paid to the institution vital to both: the Civil Service. This Official History is designed to remedy this by placing present problems in historical context and by providing a helpful structure in which others, and particularly former officials, may contribute to the debate. Starting with the seminal 1854 Northcote-Trevelyan Report, it covers the ‘lost opportunity’ of the 1940s when the Service failed to adapt the needs of ‘big government’ as advocated by Beveridge and Keynes. It then examines, in greater detail, the belated attempts at modernisation in the 1960s, the Service’s vilification in the 1970s and the final destruction of the ‘old order’ during the first years of Mrs Thatcher’s government. Particular light is shed on the origins of such current concerns as the role of special advisers the need for a Prime Minister’s Department the evolution of Parliamentary Select Committees to resolve the potential tension between bureaucracy and Parliamentary democracy. This Official History is based on extensive research into both recently released and unreleased papers as well as interviews with leading participants. It has important lessons to offer all those, both inside and outside the UK, seeking to improve the quality of democratic government. This book will be of great interest to all students of British history, British government and politics, and of public administration in general.
